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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Beep

    ‘The audience is invited to take part. A man dances in front of public toilets whose symmetrical architecture suits the film’s format.’ (MF)
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  • The Last Summer 1944

    A plunge into the last months of Finland’s WWII in all its tired gruesomeness. A fugue of dour, sad, doubt-ridden, sorrow-filled faces, confessions an
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  • Curious Light

    A manuscript illuminated: illustrations retreat into the fibre of the page; a fleeting light dissolves into the emulsion of the film.
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  • All That Sheltering Emptiness

    Beautiful, hand-developed 16mm film. A story of desire and intimacy that takes us beyond what we are accustomed to.
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  • Villatalla

    Field recordings and 16mm film shots over the course of one month in a remote mountain village in Liguria: two different dimensions of encountering th
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  • — ——

    A documentary revolutionary in its unconventionality, which, as a result, captures more about its subject (rock ‘n roll), and more vividly and emotion
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  • Traject

    Filmmaker/artist Edward Luyken’s yearly output has become a tradition at the IFFR and is a worthy part of the 40th anniversary edition.
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  • Charlemagne 3: Pastrami Recordings

    A cinematic concert by two free spirits: avant-garde filmmaker Pip Chodorov and minimal composer Charlemagne Palestine, both New Yorkers in the diaspo
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  • Landfill 16

    The original images used a complex process to constitute an abstract painting with pulsing patterns. Primal screams from the wilderness fall silent.
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  • Shibuya – Tokyo

    Double bill with Tokyo – Ebisu is an ingenious patchwork of thirty different shots showing station exits along Tokyo’s busiest metro line.
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